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They
voted
to
build
the
San
Sebastián
Line
at
a
cost
of
thirty
million
dollars
.
When
Dagny
left
the
Board
room
and
walked
through
the
clean
,
cold
air
of
the
streets
,
she
heard
two
words
repeated
clearly
,
insistently
in
the
numbed
emptiness
of
her
mind
:
Get
out
.
.
.
Get
out
.
.
.
Get
out
.
She
listened
,
aghast
.
The
thought
of
leaving
Taggart
Transcontinental
did
not
belong
among
the
things
she
could
hold
as
conceivable
.
She
felt
terror
,
not
at
the
thought
,
but
at
the
question
of
what
had
made
her
think
it
.
She
shook
her
head
angrily
;
she
told
herself
that
Taggart
Transcontinental
would
now
need
her
more
than
ever
.
Two
of
the
Directors
resigned
;
so
did
the
Vice
-
President
in
Charge
of
Operation
.
He
was
replaced
by
a
friend
of
James
Taggart
.
Steel
rail
was
laid
across
the
Mexican
desert
—
while
orders
were
issued
to
reduce
the
speed
of
trains
on
the
Rio
Norte
Line
,
because
the
track
was
shot
.
A
depot
of
reinforced
concrete
,
with
marble
columns
and
mirrors
,
was
built
amidst
the
dust
of
an
unpaved
square
in
a
Mexican
village
—
while
a
train
of
tank
cars
carrying
oil
went
hurtling
down
an
embankment
and
into
a
blazing
junk
pile
,
because
a
rail
had
split
on
the
Rio
Norte
Line
.
Ellis
Wyatt
did
not
wait
for
the
court
to
decide
whether
the
accident
was
an
act
of
God
,
as
James
Taggart
claimed
.
He
transferred
the
shipping
of
his
oil
to
the
Phoenix
-
Durango
,
an
obscure
railroad
which
was
small
and
struggling
,
but
struggling
well
.
This
was
the
rocket
that
sent
the
Phoenix
-
Durango
on
its
way
.
From
then
on
,
it
grew
,
as
Wyatt
Oil
grew
,
as
factories
grew
in
nearby
valleys
-
as
a
band
of
rails
and
ties
grew
,
at
the
rate
of
two
miles
a
month
,
across
the
scraggly
fields
of
Mexican
corn
.
Dagny
was
thirty
-
two
years
old
,
when
she
told
James
Taggart
that
she
would
resign
.
She
had
run
the
Operating
Department
for
the
past
three
years
,
without
title
,
credit
or
authority
.
She
was
defeated
by
loathing
for
the
hours
,
the
days
,
the
nights
she
had
to
waste
circumventing
the
interference
of
Jim
’
s
friend
who
bore
the
title
of
Vice
-
President
in
Charge
of
Operation
.
The
man
had
no
policy
,
and
any
decision
he
made
was
always
hers
,
but
he
made
it
only
after
he
had
made
every
effort
to
make
it
impossible
.
What
she
delivered
to
her
brother
was
an
ultimatum
.
He
gasped
,
"
But
,
Dagny
,
you
’
re
a
woman
!
A
woman
as
Operating
Vice
-
President
?
It
’
s
unheard
of
!
The
Board
won
’
t
consider
it
!
"
"
Then
I
’
m
through
,
"
she
answered
.
She
did
not
think
of
what
she
would
do
with
the
rest
of
her
life
.
To
face
leaving
Taggart
Transcontinental
was
like
waiting
to
have
her
legs
amputated
;
she
thought
she
would
let
it
happen
,
then
take
up
the
load
of
whatever
was
left
.
She
never
understood
why
the
Board
of
Directors
voted
unanimously
to
make
her
Vice
-
President
in
Charge
of
Operation
.
